==Roll Call==
Childe Raymonde, Githyanki Paladin (Doty)
Bell, Kenku Cleric (CJ)
Blynce, Human-hybrid Fighter (Eric)
Vaal, Eladrin Rogue (Tim)
Bumi, Goblin Wizard (Matt)
To the Sanctuary of Albahith, Jigow Township
Greetings to the Masters of the Pilgrims, and hail to The Luxon:
Mission Report from Childe Raymonde (Part 14)
On the road to Bazzoxan, we had reached the caravan stop, a friendly location where different travellers congregated, and decided to camp down there for the night.
The campground was quite the cozy place, with laughter and hot food, and places to keep our warhorses (that we had "acquired" from the bandits we fought on the road). A large family/small tribe of Goblins was there, camped on the back of a Leatherback Turtle (Yuyo by name). We saw the scout (Justus) that we had rescued on the road a few days ago, and we told him of our adventures. Some of the people were survivors of the battle whose aftermath we came across earlier.
Justus gave us 50gp and a pair of Goggles of Night as reward for rescuing him earlier. Bell and I engaged in a game of chance to determine who would get the Goggles -- Bell won.
We spoke with the survivors -- Teevack and Margra -- they said the dagger belonged to their father, Kierchaly Waste-walker. We said we knew an Irvan Waste-walker, who turned out to be their cousin. In return for the dagger, they gave us a finely made battle-ax. (A +1 battle-ax, as it turned out)
Blynce walked up to a lady serving mastodon stew, because he saw that Justus was served. We all were given very tasty stew, most welcome after the dried rations we had been eating on the road.
We were told to beware of the Ruins of Sorrow in the Barbed Fields as we approached Bazzoxan.
A restful night, and then we left. The trail began to wind northeast now. The surroundings began to change. Barbs, or spines, stone-like (or perhaps plant-like), stuck out of the ground, some just a foot or two, some much larger. This was the beginning of the Barbed Fields.
We saw dust rising from the ground ahead. Three mammoths were being harrassed by some flying creature. A gloomstalker! Noticing us, it left off the mammoths and approached us. Bell hit it with a mighty attack, and angered it immensely. I was paralyzed by the Gloomstalker's cry! Bell cast a spell to release me. The Gloomstalker downed our rogue, Vaal, but I dispatched it immediately afterwards.
To our horror, we saw that the Gloomstalker's cry had summoned four undead skeletons, which shuffled towards us menacingly. We destroyed them fairly easily, and Vaal was healed back to consciousness.
While making camp, we notice a flare of red light on the second moon! We remembered old stories -- the second moon was associated with ill omens and bad luck. Our sleep was troubled that night.
(We are now 5th level!)